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Florida Independent: Scott signs latest random drug testing of state employees bill by Ashley Lopez:

Last night, Gov. Rick Scott signed into law the state’s second attempt to randomly drug test state employees.

A bill passed through both chambers of the Legislature this month that would allow state agencies to adopt policies for randomly drug testing all of their employees. Civil rights and labor groups spoke out against the bill, which was lobbied for by the governor’s office, as it made its way through the Legislature.

The Ninth Circuit granted rehearing en banc in United States v. Cotterman, 637 F.3d 1068 (9th Cir. 2011), posted here.

Today we examine a question of first impression in the Ninth Circuit: whether the search of a laptop computer that begins at the border and ends two days later in a Government forensic computer laboratory almost 170 miles away can still fall within the border search doctrine. The district court considered the issue to be a simple matter of time and space. It concluded that the search of property seized at an international border and moved 170 miles from that border for further search cannot be justified by the border search doctrine. We disagree.

A Kwik-Fit mechanic who killed a boy in Essex while driving a customer's Porsche without consent is jailed for six-and-a-half years.

A committee hearing Tuesday on the Department of Energy's use of stimulus funding kept returning to rising gas prices as Republicans hammered Secretary Steven Chu over the pain at the pump.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republicans are revamping their strategy against President Barack Obama's health care law: If they can't repeal the whole thing, they'll try to pick off pieces. Starting with a new and unfamiliar bureaucracy....

"Eddie the Eagle" Edwards, who plummeted to fame at the Calgary Winter Olympics in 1988, says he has been rejected as a London 2012 torchbearer.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The United States is granting an exemption to 10 European Union countries and Japan from enforcing economic sanctions because the countries have significantly reduced their purchases of petroleum from Iran....

Jacob Mellis leaves Chelsea after admitting setting off a smoke grenade at the club's Cobham training ground.

Labour make an official complaint after Boris Johnson transferred the official Mayor of London Twitter account into his name.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- It's on to the House floor for a deficit-slashing GOP budget plan....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Conservative House Republicans on Tuesday set up what appears to be a potential re-run of last year's turbulent domestic policy fight with President Barack Obama, putting forward an election-year budget manifesto that would blend steep social program cuts with reduced tax rates....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama celebrated an extended St. Patrick's Day at the White House Tuesday with a visit from Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny, who assured Obama that his debt-ridden nation would make an economic comeback....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Facing a skeptical Congress, the top commander in Afghanistan insisted on Tuesday that the United States is winding down the decade-plus war and has no intention to remain in the country indefinitely....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court has several options in ruling on President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, from upholding the law to striking it down in its entirety. The court also could avoid deciding the law's constitutionality at all, if it finds the lawsuits challenging the law are premature....

The London Book Fair is criticised by a leading Chinese dissident for inviting only writers approved by the Chinese communist authorities.

Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti begins tough talks with unions on labour law reform as he tries to turn around the economy.

The head of crime for Cleveland Police is found dead on land near a bridge in Teesside.

Could drilling get UK go-ahead with insufficient regulation?

SANAA, Yemen (AP) -- Hundreds of youth activists and other protesters marched Tuesday through a central Yemeni city demanding justice for an American teacher who was gunned down by unknown assailants this week....